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Homework for January 10
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The Ghosts of the Nelsonville House
Look up to see them through the high windows inside a kitchen filled with the light of a watery Nelsonville sun. Keep looking and it’s spring again, the lights gold now, and dancing across the pine floors. Once, there were so many children here running through this house up and down the stairs, hiding under beds and in trunks…
My great-great-grandfather on my father’s side was born free in Ohio, 1832. Built his home and farmed his land then dug for coal when the farming wasn’t enough. Fought hard in the war. His name in stone now on the Civil War Memorial: William J. Woodson United States Colored Troops, Union, Company B 5th Regt. A long time dead but living still among the other soldiers on that monument in Washington, D.C. William Woodson the only brown boy in an all-white school. You’ll face this in your life someday, my mother will tell us over and over again. A moment when you walk into a room and no one there is like you
Questions
1. What clues tell you that Jack’s family was happy? (Underline the answer and underline evidence from the text to support
2. Where is great-great grandfather’s name? (Circle the answer and circle the evidence from the text to support)
3. What do we learn about William Woodson? (Underline the answer and circle the evidence from text to support answer)
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level 2 answer 2 questions
level 3 answer all the questions
The Ghosts of the Nelsonville House
Look up to see them through the high windows inside a kitchen filled with the light of a watery Nelsonville sun. In the parlor a fireplace burns warmth into the long Ohio winter. Keep looking and it’s spring again, the lights gold now, and dancing across the pine floors. Once, there were so many children here running through this house up and down the stairs, hiding under beds and in trunks…
My great-great-grandfather on my father’s side was born free in Ohio, 1832. Built his home and farmed his land then dug for coal when the farming wasn’t enough. Fought hard in the war. His name in stone now on the Civil War Memorial: William J. Woodson United States Colored Troops, Union, Company B 5th Regt. A long time dead but living still among the other soldiers on that monument in Washington, D.C. William Woodson the only brown boy in an all-white school. You’ll face this in your life someday, my mother will tell us over and over again. A moment when you walk into a room and no one there is like you
Questions
1. What clues tell you that Jack’s family was happy?
2. Where is great-great grandfather’s name?
3. What do we learn about William Woodson?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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